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July 2026: AWS Backup plans, Vault Lock, logically air-gapped vaults, cross-account copies, and restore-test cadence: the RPO/RTO discipline that turns “we have backups” into “we restored last week.”
Kiro is a spec-driven agentic IDE built for autonomous multi-file code generation, separate from Amazon Q. Enterprise guide to adoption and governance.
July 2026: Route 53 hosted zones, latency/geo/failover routing, health checks, and when DNS TTL is not enough, with Route 53 Application Recovery Controller for controlled multi-Region cutover.
The 6 Well-Architected pillars, with what each costs, what each covers, and how to apply them to a workload before AWS's solutions architects do it for you.
A VPC misdesign at month two becomes a multi-quarter migration at year two. CIDR planning, subnet strategies, NAT gateways, VPC endpoints, Transit Gateway, and the network architecture patterns that scale without forcing a re-IP.
July 2026: Trainium2 (trn2.48xlarge, 3.2 Tbps EFA) and Inferentia2 via Neuron SDK. AWS cites ~30-40% better price performance vs P5e/P5en; measure your workload before quoting wider savings.
July 2026: CloudFront (750+ POPs, Origin Shield, Functions vs Lambda@Edge) vs Cloudflare (proxy + unmetered egress). Decide with a worksheet, not a stale POP count slide.
July 2026 decision guide: monolith → modular monolith → microservices on AWS, covering team size, platform tax (VPC Lattice/mesh), and a checklist before you split for the org chart.
Three API types, three pricing models, three authentication patterns, and a wrong choice that stays baked into your URL design for years. A decision guide for picking REST vs HTTP vs WebSocket APIs, with the throttling and caching configs that decide your monthly bill.
Redis is fast, until your application retries on every cache miss and the Redis bill starts looking like the database bill. ElastiCache patterns, data structures, cluster modes, eviction policies, and the production patterns that actually reduce database load.
July 2026: Cognito user pools for SaaS, covering managed login vs classic hosted UI, pool vs silo tenancy, federation limits, and a checklist before you outgrow Cognito into Auth0/Okta.
QuickSight is not a Looker or Tableau replacement, but for analytics added onto the AWS data plane it is the path that does not require a new vendor contract. Data sources, SPICE performance, embedded analytics, row-level security, and dashboards that survive scale.
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